Ali Bapir

Ali Bapir (1961-), also known as Mamosta Ali Bapir or Sheikh Ali Bapir, was the founder of the Kurdistan Islamic Group.

Biography
Ali Bapir was born in 1961 was born in the Peshdar region of Iraqi Kurdistan in northern Iraq to a Kurdish family. Bapir became a member of the Kurdish self-government movement and he founded the Kurdistan Islamic Group in 2001, which fought in the 2003 Operation Viking Hammer conflict of the Iraq War against the United States and Patriotic Kurdistan alongside Ansar al-Islam.